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erading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol. Heard a carol, mournful, holy. Tennyson. In the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble.

uring, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. An angel carved in stone. Tennyson. We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. C. Wolfe.

Poetic] A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.

To calculate; to compute. [R.] Who would cast and balance at a desk. Tennyson.

to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. "Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the issue." Tennyson.

tai, the country of the Khitans.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. Tennyson. Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. Herbert. To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out." Burke.

pening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal window in a chancel. Tennyson. -- Chancel table, the communion table.

s. Our fathers did for change to France repair. Dryden. The ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.

ty (for something said or done) at the door of. If the did that wrong you charge with. Tennyson.

To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game. Chasing each other merrily. Tennyson.

ed; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.

To give expression to in a chirping tone. Cheep and twitter twenty million loves. Tennyson.

ing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc. Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street. Tennyson. Whzt cheer Now do you fare What is there that is cheering

Cheerily. [Archaic] Tennyson.

To chirp. Tennyson. The criket chirrups on the hearth. Goldsmith.

le; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. The graceful tact; the Christian art. Tennyson. Christian Commission. See under Commission. -- Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court. -- Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionys…

ded to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus (died about 540), who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754, which year he counted as 1 a. d. This date for Christ's birth is now generally thought to be about four years too lat…

Without faith in Christ; unchristian. Tennyson.